Behind the Fog

Lisa Martino-Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Louis Community College. Martino-Taylor earned her doctorate in Sociology at the University of Missouri–Columbia and researches issues related to power, elite deviance, social and environmental justice, and U.S. military development and testing of radiological weapons.

INTRODUCTION

I: ATOMIC WORLD

A Culture of Secrecy

Manhattan Project Phase Two- Radiological Weapons Experimentation

II: THE RADIUM LEGACY

III: BLINDED BY SCIENCE

Radioactive Warfare

IV: THE MILITARIZED ACADEMY

Militarization of the Academy

Stanford University/Stanford Research Institute

V: STRUCTURE OF DECEIT

PHS, NIH and Embedded Studies

No Turning Back

Military Crosshairs

Final Weapons Targets

Fernald School

VI: MILITARY ANALOGS

Hidden in Plain View

Target One: Minneapolis

St. Louis Army Chemical Corps Experiments

Winnipeg, Canada

Leighton Effects

A Parallel Study

A Dubious Narrative

The National Research Council Reviews Army Data

An Unlikely Champion

Parsons and the Army: A Lucrative Partnership

VII: THE ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS AND OPEN-AIR FIELD STUDIES

The St. Louis Open-Air Dispersion Study- Part Two

The Pruitt-Igoe Public Housing Complex

St. Louis Part II

SRI and the Atomic Veterans

Post-Study Claims by Officials

VIII: IN THIS HOUSE: EMBEDDEDNESS AND THE MILITARY RADIATION STUDIES

AEC Isotopes Project

Dual-Use Technology

Gabriel and Sunshine

The Vanderbilt Radiation Studies

IX: FALLOUT "SIMULANT" TESTING

Fallout Simulants

Canadian and U.K. Studies

U.S. Open Air Radiation Experiments

X: DEVIANCE, SECRECY, AND CLOSED WORLDS

Secrecy and Group Conformity

Closed World Dynamics

Control of Discourse

Dehumanization

CONCLUSION

After the Dust has Settled

A Tangle of Objectives

BIBLIOGRAPHY

METHODOLOGY AND AFTERWORD

Components for Future Exploration

APPENDIX A: ABBREVIATIONS LIST

INDEX